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also lol @ VCR.
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Date: April 30th, 2018 11:23 AM
Author: provocative base

ohhhhh i can't believe how timely this is what a warning to women trying to survive in trump's america so many parallels to modern america i'd never let something like that happen jonah and i already have plans to run away to canada i'd get right in those soldiers faces and tell them they can't oppress my body of course they would try to force me to be a handmaid a very powerful commander would claim me and his wife would not be as hot as me but i'd struggle i'd struggle oh yes even though they would overpower me and he'd ravage me with his big commander cock he'd pound me and pound me and there'd be nothing i could do oh no oh no but i'd scratch and claw except his wife would hold me down that bitch she'd resent me for making him cum in my womb and give him beautiful children he'd sneak me goodies and treats and show me off at jezebels that sick patriarchal bastard but jonah wouldn't be able to find me i'd have to move on and be strong and live for me and my children and eventually i'd seduce the commander so good that he helps me become his real wife and we'd have the power then so i could help people fuck trump for trying to put this in practice pretty much an owners manual for him and pence those fuckers they'll never get to fuck me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#35949672)



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Date: April 30th, 2018 11:28 AM
Author: Infuriating hell

lmfao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#35949690)



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Date: April 30th, 2018 11:30 AM
Author: clear boyish wrinkle foreskin

Its like some William Faulkner level stream of conciousness

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#35949706)



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Date: June 9th, 2019 11:28 PM
Author: talking mewling hall laser beams



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Date: October 13th, 2020 12:49 PM
Author: diverse kitty cat



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Date: October 28th, 2021 5:28 AM
Author: bronze coldplay fan mad cow disease



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Date: April 30th, 2018 11:31 AM
Author: mind-boggling ruby office



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Date: April 30th, 2018 11:33 AM
Author: chest-beating tanning salon shitlib



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Date: April 30th, 2018 11:35 AM
Author: Thriller garrison kitty

WOKE AS FUK

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Date: June 24th, 2018 7:47 PM
Author: exciting half-breed address



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Date: June 24th, 2018 7:48 PM
Author: silver razzle-dazzle hominid boltzmann

this is scholarship of the highest order. you are now Sir Risten.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#36303030)



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Date: June 24th, 2018 7:50 PM
Author: pungent sound barrier casino



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Date: June 24th, 2018 7:56 PM
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Date: October 28th, 2021 12:18 AM
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Date: June 24th, 2018 7:53 PM
Author: Brilliant Swashbuckling Elastic Band

180 Joyce

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Date: June 24th, 2018 7:57 PM
Author: rambunctious stead yarmulke

unadulterated 180

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Date: June 24th, 2018 7:58 PM
Author: at-the-ready bawdyhouse masturbator



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Date: June 24th, 2018 8:05 PM
Author: Milky business firm



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Date: June 9th, 2019 10:31 PM
Author: provocative base

"Binders full of women" in latest episode not flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38364783)



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Date: June 9th, 2019 11:29 PM
Author: talking mewling hall laser beams

YUP.

It’s like they got bored of Trump references (did you also catch the lesbian refugee demanding not to be separated from the unrelated infant she was carrying?) and so decided to throw in a Romney dig for old time’s sake.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38365120)



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Date: June 9th, 2019 10:32 PM
Author: Flirting orchestra pit



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Date: June 9th, 2019 10:36 PM
Author: Infuriating hell

this OP is seriously a masterpiece

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38364811)



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Date: June 9th, 2019 10:40 PM
Author: diverse kitty cat



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Date: December 1st, 2021 2:31 PM
Author: diverse kitty cat



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Date: June 9th, 2019 10:39 PM
Author: Indigo corner

i'm guessing OP's name IRL is jonah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38364835)



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Date: June 9th, 2019 10:52 PM
Author: rambunctious stead yarmulke

this has aged exceedingly well

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38364924)



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Date: June 9th, 2019 11:30 PM
Author: talking mewling hall laser beams



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Date: June 10th, 2019 12:01 PM
Author: diverse kitty cat



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:40 PM
Author: curious rehab



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Date: June 10th, 2019 12:05 PM
Author: electric hateful set travel guidebook

you're playing to your audience, fine, but this is clearly written by a man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38366957)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:33 PM
Author: Ebony supple kitchen karate

cr. "cock," "pound." but sometimes u just let it slide you know?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368292)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 4:34 PM
Author: electric hateful set travel guidebook

pure praise would mean his talent has nowhere else to go here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368687)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:16 PM
Author: diverse kitty cat



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:28 PM
Author: vigorous heaven mad-dog skullcap

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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:29 PM
Author: hyperactive green knife newt

megan mcardle i think had a good column on how ridiculous the handmaid's tale is happening! meme is

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-04-25/no-the-handmaid-s-tale-is-not-unexpectedly-timely

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368275)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:33 PM
Author: Useless misanthropic box office

John Dolan wrote the GOAT POTUS review... twenty years ago.

http://exiledonline.com/old-exile/vault/books/review103.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368294)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:37 PM
Author: dull arrogant stage

Holy shit, this is great

"Handmaid’s Tale is meant to reassure every wretched office-worker who goes home to a cat, a VCR, and Pizza-for-one that her life is noble and progressive."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368320)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:38 PM
Author: Useless misanthropic box office

also lol @ VCR.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368327)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:42 PM
Author: dull arrogant stage

This was written in 2000, but it fits in seamlessly with xo themes on GC and shrewdom. A true visionary.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368374)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:47 PM
Author: curious rehab

This guy is an XO Ted level visionary

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368393)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:48 PM
Author: Wonderful property



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:41 PM
Author: curious rehab



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:42 PM
Author: Wonderful property

lol, whoa

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368367)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:44 PM
Author: Wonderful property

holy shit

"And in the meantime, what has Atwood’s Utopia done, in real political terms? It has managed to distract a whole generation of Americanized women from the real fear and awful loneliness of their office lives. In this way, Atwood’s Canada of the Spirit is, like its real-world counterpart, the good-cop tool, the quaking valet of its Vampire master, America. Atwood’s Canada offers no answer to the Americanized women whose only family is Allie MacBeal and her friends. After all, they’re not rednecks, they’re not Fundamentalists. In fact, the horrible lives of every woman who tries to live out Allie MacBeal is rendered noble by reading Handmaid’s Tale. "

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368382)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:45 PM
Author: diverse kitty cat



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:46 PM
Author: curious rehab



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Date: June 10th, 2019 4:11 PM
Author: Pale vibrant personal credit line state

whoa cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368548)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 5:01 PM
Author: Motley Impertinent Police Squad



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Date: January 23rd, 2020 10:16 AM
Author: Ebony supple kitchen karate

this is an amazing article

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#39475589)



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Date: October 28th, 2021 12:14 AM
Author: very tactful cerebral party of the first part stock car

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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:47 PM
Author: marvelous stag film

"wretched office-worker who goes home to a cat"

imo this guy should get credit for identifying the modern shrew

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368399)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 4:59 PM
Author: Motley Impertinent Police Squad



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:45 PM
Author: curious rehab

“No one wants to force middle-class American women to have babies. In fact, it’s almost impossible for them to contemplate having kids, because they’re terrified that it might set them back in their careers, and their rivals in the adjacent cubicles would grab their parking spaces and health plans. Nobody wants to use their bodies. That’s precisely the horror with which they live: no one wants to mate with them because in their world, every single striver must fear every other, and the sort of joint action involved in mating and rearing one’s young is impossible—laughable, a thing which only those who have abandoned the hope of A Career can contemplate. So in their minds, mating and rearing children moves down in class, becoming a thing for rednecks and (though they’ll never say this part out loud) immigrants-of-col”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368389)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:47 PM
Author: Useless misanthropic box office

The eXile was an early dose of REDPILL for me even though the writes are all lefty degenerates.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38368394)



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:47 PM
Author: Wonderful property



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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:58 PM
Author: Ebony supple kitchen karate

whoah

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Date: June 10th, 2019 4:09 PM
Author: soul-stirring snowy pozpig



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Date: June 10th, 2019 4:12 PM
Author: Pale vibrant personal credit line state

holy shit

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Date: June 10th, 2019 4:46 PM
Author: Infuriating hell

holy fuck

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Date: June 10th, 2019 5:28 PM
Author: diverse kitty cat

Cot damn

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Date: May 9th, 2021 3:27 PM
Author: Azure Awkward Hunting Ground Lodge



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Date: October 28th, 2021 12:15 AM
Author: very tactful cerebral party of the first part stock car

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Date: June 10th, 2019 4:05 PM
Author: Puce Excitant Resort Toaster

fatality

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Date: June 10th, 2019 5:56 PM
Author: Flirting orchestra pit



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Date: June 15th, 2019 2:37 PM
Author: talking mewling hall laser beams

Does this guy have any thoughts on MAGA?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3963985&forum_id=2#38393148)



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Date: October 28th, 2021 12:05 AM
Author: Multi-colored fear-inspiring candlestick maker hospital



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Date: October 28th, 2021 12:15 AM
Author: very tactful cerebral party of the first part stock car



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Date: October 28th, 2021 3:46 AM
Author: Multi-colored fear-inspiring candlestick maker hospital

this is so damn good I'm copy pasting the whole thing:

THE WINNER OF THE MARK DAVID CHAPMAN LITERARY PRIZE:

#1: Canadian Women ou Les Hoes Canucqois

By John Dolan

Just as I was finishing this column naming Margaret Atwood the Queen of Dunces, I heard she’d won this year’s Booker Prize. Once again, the mainstream press tries to scoop the eXile! There must be a leak somewhere in our ranks. Luckily, we have a roof which specializes in closing leaks, no matter how many fingernails or bamboo slivers it takes. Besides, what a transparent ploy, giving the Booker to Atwood! Atwood IS the Booker; she incarnates it; how can you award it to her? It’s like giving the Nobel to Nobel. Atwood is the prototype of the vaguely leftist, mainstream-feminist Commonwealth novelist for whom the Booker is reserved. Her name is legion: Barbara Kingsolver, Keri Hulme, Nadine Gordimer—these are her handmaids. Kingsolver, nominally American; Hulme, Kiwi; and Gordimer, South African white; all these are drawn like honking geese toward Atwood’s Kanada, spiritual home of all moderate-progressive white folk.

Kanada is the destination of Offred, the heroine of The Handmaid’s Tale, when she flees the Fundamentalist-ruled US. The notion that the Canadian border constitutes sanctuary might seem somewhat risible, since Ontario had considerable trouble repelling an 1867 invasion by forty-odd drunken Fenians armed with broken bottles and sticks. But Atwood refers here, not to a mere traffic jam full of Torontans smuggling home cheap VCRs, but a border between spiritual realms. Hers is a higher Canada, which exists among virtuous, slightly dim middlebrows everywhere in the world. This Greater Canada stretches from the two-square-meter bedrooms of ESL teachers in Kyoto to the jacuzzis of billionaire “progressives” in Malibu.

The scare-stories with which Atwood frigs her readers are distinguished by their foolish irrelevance. Take this alleged masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale. A foolish book, it depicts Hell as imagined by an anglo-Canadian mandarin: America ruled by savage uncultured Christians who not only repress all intellectual freedoms but would probably cut funding for genteel novelists. Worst of all, women in this Republic of Gilead are valued solely for their ability to bear children, restricted to the house and excluded from economic activity.

No one who knows anything about the way America works would ever really think that its rulers would want to let silly gender prejudices keep them from creating new consumers, much less let religion get in the way of productivity. The Baptist loonies are suckers to be wooed in election years, no more. They are useful as janitors in peacetime, cannon-fodder in war. Making them into the rulers of a nightmare vision of America is, by a charitable estimation, very naive. If we were to consider it less charitably, it might seem downright suspect. Atwood, who shares about 99.9% of her DNA with America’s real rulers, cannot see them at all, and so fails to notice their hegemony. As she confessed in boasting about her achievement in Handmaid’s Tale, she borrowed horror-stories about the treatment of women in loser countries like Iraq and applied them to the US. Apparently she could not see the horror which really does suffuse American life—a horror which has absolutely nothing to do with that losers’ club, Islam.

Handmaid’s Tale is meant to reassure every wretched office-worker who goes home to a cat, a VCR, and Pizza-for-one that her life is noble and progressive. Handmaid’s Tale is fun horror-fiction for women who work in the American-style cubicle-world precisely because it’s so utterly unrelated to the miseries and terrors of their own lives. No one wants to force middle-class American women to have babies. In fact, it’s almost impossible for them to contemplate having kids, because they’re terrified that it might set them back in their careers, and their rivals in the adjacent cubicles would grab their parking spaces and health plans. Nobody wants to use their bodies. That’s precisely the horror with which they live: no one wants to mate with them because in their world, every single striver must fear every other, and the sort of joint action involved in mating and rearing one’s young is impossible—laughable, a thing which only those who have abandoned the hope of A Career can contemplate. So in their minds, mating and rearing children moves down in class, becoming a thing for rednecks and (though they’ll never say this part out loud) immigrants-of-color. The desire to have children gets bounced outside oneself, onto these lesser beings, and returns, courtesy of Atwood, in demonized form, as the tyranny of procreation, family values and the Patriarchy. It’s the horror they love to fear.

And in the meantime, what has Atwood’s Utopia done, in real political terms? It has managed to distract a whole generation of Americanized women from the real fear and awful loneliness of their office lives. In this way, Atwood’s Canada of the Spirit is, like its real-world counterpart, the good-cop tool, the quaking valet of its Vampire master, America. Atwood’s Canada offers no answer to the Americanized women whose only family is Allie MacBeal and her friends. After all, they’re not rednecks, they’re not Fundamentalists. In fact, the horrible lives of every woman who tries to live out Allie MacBeal is rendered noble by reading Handmaid’s Tale.

So the owners of the cubicles rejoice in the intra-cranial vacations their slaves take in Atwood’s astral Canada. Let them crusade against the Republic of Gilead. Let them invest their wretched slaves’ lives with nobility. The real Republic of Gilead is a matter of dividends, not religion. It would never let the religious obsessions of its cannon-fodder voters interrupt the real business of America—the business carried out in the cubicles. If Allie and Margaret can scatter a cheap glitter over the walls of the cubicles, all the better.

It seems horribly apt that Atwood should win the Booker on the day Bush assumes the presidency. Atwood’s pious, dimwitted, credulous female Canada is the perfect handmaid for Bush’s under-the-table America. Their union is blessed with new offspring every day, every hour. As the coral reefs crumble, the cubicles invade. And everywhere they breed, from Kuala Lumpur to Samara, volumes of Atwood appear like Gideon Bibles at the desks of the corporate handmaids, telling them their lives are blessed.

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Date: June 10th, 2019 3:32 PM
Author: Racy multi-billionaire institution

Lmao is this really the story of the show?

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Date: July 1st, 2022 10:43 AM
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This and the "inside a lady's head" one are like bookends.

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